The Taft School

Watertown · CT · Private independent

Private

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How The Taft School compares for families

What families should know about The Taft School.

▸ LocallyCT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
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Your state's public flagship

University of Connecticut

54%

admit rate

$21,044

in-state tuition/yr · $43,712 out-of-state

1210–1420

SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $25,097/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

The Taft School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 142 colleges, in the document's own order.

Years, as the document states them
2024-2026

American University Amherst College Auburn University Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Bentley University Binghamton University, State University of New York Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryant University Bucknell University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Centre College Chapman University Claremont McKenna College Clark University Clarkson University Clemson University Coffeyville Community College Colby College Colgate University College of the Holy Cross Colorado College Columbia University Concordia University

and 112 more

Connecticut College Cornell University Dalhousie University Dartmouth College Denison University Drexel University Duke University Emory University Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College Georgetown University Gettysburg College Hamilton College Harvard University Haverford College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Howard University Indiana University Bloomington Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Longwood University Marist University McGill University Middle Tennessee State University Middlebury College Monroe University New York University North Central College Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Occidental College Ohio Dominican University Penn State, University Park Pomona College Post University Princeton University Providence College Purdue University Quinnipiac University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rice University Rollins College Rutgers University, New Brunswick Salisbury University Salve Regina University Santa Clara University Southern Connecticut State University Southern Methodist University Stanford University Stonehill College Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University Texas Christian University The American University of Paris The George Washington University The New School The Ohio State University at Columbus The University of Alabama The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of Texas at Austin The University of the South The University of Western Ontario Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College United States Air Force Academy United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy University of California, Berkeley University of California, Irvine University of California, Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Denver University of Florida University of Georgia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Jamestown University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, Boston University of Miami University of Michigan University of New Hampshire University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Richmond University of San Diego University of South Carolina, Columbia University of Southern California University of St. Andrews University of Toronto University of Virginia University of Wisconsin, Madison Vanderbilt University Vassar College Villanova University Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University Western Connecticut State University William & Mary Williams College Yale University

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by The Taft School — "2026-27 Taft School Profile" (PDF), section "College Matriculation 2024-2026" ↗. Found at: School Profile PDF, pages 2-3.

About this listing

The Taft School is listed by PSS 2020 · NAIS + TABS + founder list. Its enrollment figures below come from the most recent federal Private School Survey it answered; the survey is voluntary, and the school did not respond to the latest wave. The school's own site: www.taftschool.org ↗

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 594 in 2018 to 600 in 2020 — over 2 years.

+1.0%

Why only 2 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

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School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
The Woodhall School Bethlehem	Private	4.6	42	—
Westover School Middlebury	Private	5.4	188	-6.5%
Aspire Living & Learning Academy Naugatuck	Private	8.2	28	—
The Frederick Gunn School Washington	Private	9.8	315	+10.5%
Devereux Glenholme School Washington	Private	9.9	64	-22.9%
Connecticut Junior Republic-Bristol Bristol	Private	10.3	6	—
Touchstone School Litchfield	Private	10.7	2	—
Forman School Litchfield	Private	11.0	235	+5.4%

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